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Fashion Notes.

Simple forms are preferred in all out
of door wraps.
The velvet jockey cap is a favorite
with young girls still.
The belt is worn very generally with
different styles of corsage.
silk-warp corduroy is meeting with
considerable favor as q dress material.
Tan colored undressed kid gloves, in
fourteen shades, are shown to be worn
with winter costumes.
Very attractive are those ornamental
buttons of Cordova leather which are
shown on English wraps.
There are a great many new styles in
heavy braid trimmings, the most fashion
able of all sorts of decoration.
vestsOof t~an-colored corded silk, and
tan colored galloon are used to trim
black dresses of various kinds.
The enamel buttons with pictures OF
the time of Louis XIV. are most beautiful
and would enrich any garment.
Long and impossible names are given
to the new colors which are really old
colors made again the fashion.
There is a great variety in the cor
smyes of the new costumes, but all are
fanciful and somewhat elaborate.
Skirts are short for the street, dcmi-
trainedfor dinners, five o'clock teas, etc.
and full trained for evening wear.
There is a serpent blue as well as
green by this dlsagreeable name, and
the blue is certainly pretty if its name i
not.
The milkmaid skirt with its highland
bouffant drapery, is a pretty fashion fol
the, lowered fabrics worn for house cos
TUNES.
The shofS skirt is still fashionable ex-
cent for ceremonious occasionso and j
always quite the thing for very young
ladies.
The white braids used to trim al
sorts Of colored fabrics are effective o.
half tints, such as French gray, mauv'
and the biscuit shades.
Ivory white satin, faille Francals'
and MORE antique are the approved ma
terial for rich wedding gowns, and tn
trimmings are Of lace or embroidere'
lisse.
Bodices which have the sides pro
\ longed into panels which fall loosely =
the foot of the skirt are again IN vogue
and the panels are decorated and hne'
in various ways.
The most fashionable dressmakers ea
ercise their ingenuity to make the slde
of dress skirts as fiat as possible IN e.
feet, in spite Of garnitnre, and the Dac
as full and bouffant as is Becoming :
the Wearer.
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An Aged Marriage Party.

n an AYRSHIRE village, the other day,
somewhat noteworthy marriage was
s.,obrated. Tho bride, bridegroom,
s,d guests had all reached a good age
ne Youngest present having attained the
~ Of 80. The bridegroom was n years
# ace; bride, SO; groomsman, 80; and
bridesmaid, SO years. The remainder of
The company embraced two lady guests,
,ue Of whom had seen 90 summers, while
me other had attained the respectable
.os If 30. It will thus be seen that the
aggregate ages of the six who formed
tbe bridal party reached the respecta BILE
total Of 424 years. 1t may readily be
,,rmised that the marriage feast was a
rery quiet affair; there was no Gripping
Il on the light fantastic toe" no scraping
Il fiddle, and no attempts at musical
performances. In fact the company
,omported themselves with o decorum
,erfectly consistent with their years, and
wen their nearest neighbor could not
nave imagined that a marriage feast was
beng held in their neighborhood.-
Scottish American.
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Ho,o the old Egyptians Worked.

Arnaudeau publishes in the Revue
scientifque an essay upon the question
how the ancient Egyptians managed to
transport and lift the immense rocks
found on the top of temples and how
they raised their obelisks. He thinks
they took advantage Of the rise OF the
Nile. Clothing a block with as much
wood as was necessary to raise it q little
from the ground they pushed it forward
TO where they wanted il to lie and held
it in position while they removed the
wood, which left it in the exact place 1t
was to occupy. An obelisk was lifted
horizontally and pushed to where they
wanted to erect it. There they took
wood away from the base and fastened
il to the top, which caused the foot TO
sink and the top to rise.
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Girls foa. Sale.
the veal


The traffic in female children m
Young women may be seen in its worst
forms among the floating population OF
The Canton river, where . girl is as much
an article of money valuation IS . sam
nan Or j buffalo. The standard price
for / goodlooking girl to 3 European is
$500, upon receipt Of which sum papers
are signed By the parents or guardians
releasing their claim, 3 marriage with
her being optional with the purchaser
4 large number d these marketable
Girls have been purchased fer = paltr.
SUM ii infancy from impoyerishee
mothers, and are brought np w sons
I'D bag Is - sold 81 maturity ! g
Mehest biader- Louis Republican
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woman in the Past.

Girls who consider their advantages
Inferior to those of their brothers have
pnly to turn back a few pages OF history,
IN order to extract comfort from the
contrast of a melancholy past with a
brilliant present. There was q time
Narcely to be understood in these days,
when was a little more than a
slave and ornamental appendage. Dur
ing the Middle Ages and a following
period, no one would have dreamed OF
doubling her inferiority.
In the seventeenth century "woman
was still regarded as the inferior of
man; in the lower classes as a drudge,
ii the higher as IN ornament"
John Strrat Mill, IN sarcastic refer
snce to this time, thus characterizes it:
Some generations ago, when satires on
women were in vogue, and men thought
Il d clever thing to insult women for
being what men made them"
Under such conditions, it a scarcely
be a subject of wonder that women did
not attain their highest development.
They may well have deserved some o.
the prevalent medieval proverbs, o.
which the following are specimens:
Women and horses must be beaten.
Women and money are the aus o.
oil eyil.n
women keep only secrets which they
q quot know
Between q woman's yes and no there
isn't room for the point of q needle
Youths Companion.
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Revival Ief the Reticule.


It is understood that opera-glass bags
end the dainty little plush pockets for
handkerchiefs, that our bellies have for
The past year been wont TO carry about
AElththem are to be superseded this
season hy the regular old-fashioned reti-
cnlss that our grandmother used to de-
light ID, And, indeed, this fashion
Will certainly prove . charming one IN
many ways. Al fashionable woman is
nowadays obliged to take 10 many IN
aispensabls articles about with herathat
AtR absolutely necessary to have some
egnyanient receptacle for them, Sc
lllat they shall be near at haul. Ordina-
sy dress pockets are becoming more OBJ
aolete principally because modistss vii
persist in putting them IN such out-of'
shcSHay places that it Is impossible
gain access to them. Every
heay will surely welcome our grand
mothers reticules as d pleasing change
course, q must possess as many ret
aeAles as gowns, satin and silk onea Il
Naaeh evening toilets, and others 9
more sober cast for shopping purposes
Asg pay be ornamental With lace AM
HsNsss y fur and feathers, and the
# pntain anything from ! batist
handkerchief % tie latest design ]
sAa'aai hon-boa boxes. All ang ratf
woman u laste VIII admit thai
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b DEPARTMENT.
Hoods.

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2 Hoods are agair added to every sort
caring apparel upon which they can
= 'll,ronriately be placed. Clerical hoods
s ] worn upon the backs of the c~lose-it-
~ English top coats of tweed, as well
!. mon many other models. Though
IS hoods are ornamental, some are
1.s;rned to be useful as we'll. Rounded,
~ nointed, shirred, pleated, and even
se.rt.shapc, they appear upon New
rsrkets, pelerines, %visites, u~lsters, tea
.a,vns. matinees, waterproofs, and
s.ench-made night-dresses, of Chinese
r..h;ng, silk-lace trimmed -[New York
Past
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from an aesthetic point of view, any
kind of reticule-even one of the plain
est pattern-will be preferable to those
monstrosities in leather called shopping
bags, and which are to be placed in the
same category as listers and rubber
cloaks. IVA Post.
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rnna,n the tide Goes Out.

a physician living on the seaboard
thus writes: within the last five years,
III j district embracing sixty square
miles on so By the sea, 7 have noted the
hour and the minute Of no less than
ninety-three demises in my own imme-
diate practice, and every soul Of them
has gone out with the tide. save foua
Who died suddenly By fatal accident -
Medical Press.
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS.

May 81 Mcclellan had, on both sides of the
Chickahoniny, an army of 10000 john
ston, who was well informed OF the Union
movements, resolved to attack the two Federal
corps south of the Chickahominy. at Fair
Oaks station. COUGHS division was the ex-
treme right of the Federal forces. and occu-
pied Fair Oaks. a little railway station.
Casey's division was grouped a little south
east of COUGHS, around the Seven Pines
tavern, SO called because there are seven pine
trees there Between these two points the
bloodiest fighting was, and il is therefore cor
rect to mention the battle by either name.
Johnston commanded the Confederates.
The position of the two armies will be seen
from the map. The Confederates advanced
i'll three columns to the right, left and front
of the Federals Longstreet and D. II. Hill
attacked in the front, Huger on the left and
Giistavus W Smith on the right at Fair
Oaks.
Owing to the wretched roads it was noon
before the attack was made. Gen Naglee's
Federal brigade was in advance on the front,
and caught the first heavy fire. He ordered
bayonet charge to save his artillery. 1t
was given with will, and then Nagles
and Caseys divisions fell back to Couch's
second line Casey lost some of his cannon
\ hot enfilading FIRE had cut down many of
his men To the rear of COUGHS and Casey 5
divisions were the corps commanders. keyes
and Heintzelman, with, as they faced the
south, Reyes on the right and Heinzeiman on
the left
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
IN CAMP ON THE cHlckAHoMlNY.

The historic Chickahominy is fork of the
James, which rises to the northwest of Rich
mond, flows southeasterly, and empties into
the river about half way between Richmond
and its mouth. North of Richmond it flows
nearly east and west.
Meantime, early in MAY, Norfolk had been
abandoned by the Confederates Gen. Huger,
who held it with loco mon, was ordered to
the defense of Richmond. That left the
James open to Federal gunboats well up to-
ward Richmond.
McClellan's army advanced through the
mud and rain to the bank of the Chick
ahominy keycs' and Heint1eluan's corps
crossed it with one brigade. Kearney was
ON the west, at Savage station. Hooker's
division of Heutzelnlan's corps was stationed
to the southwark toCuard White Oak Swamp
bridge Summers. Franklius and Fitz John
Porter's corps remained on the left or north
ern bank of the Chickahominy, with McClel-
lan's headquarters at Gaines Mill. Keyes'
corps was only five miles from Richmond, and
took position at Seven Pines In Richmond
there was CONSERVATION A niece of Mr..
| Davis wrote to her mother;
"Uncle JEFF thinks we had better 60 to a
, safer place than Richmond. He is miserable,
fear he cannot live long If he does not get
some rest ard quiet"
In this state of mind, Mr.. Davis joined
Church His niece writes: Uncle JEFF was
confirmed last Tuesday in st. Paurs church,
! He was baptized i'll the morning before
church"
II was expected that Mcclellan would take
Richmond speedily, and the Confederate
, government made preparations to leave it.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
Manassas was-a Confederate force Of 5000

Manassas was-a Confederate force OF 5000
effective men
President Lincoln was exceedingly anxious
that the favorite general should strike the
grand blow he had promised ''If something
is not done soon,n said Lincoln, "the bottom
will fall out of everything
Mcclellan announced that the ''crlshing
defeat of the rebel army at Manassas was
his object, and that an advance against it
should not be postponed beyond Nov IS.
That date came and went, the year 1851 faded
out and 1862 was ushered in, and still no
great blow was struck In February, in
letter to President Lincoln, the general says:
81 have ever regarded our true policy as
being that of fully preparing ourselves
February passed and still no blow ex-
cept of the kind which one meets upon paper.
BY March the people of the United States
had run una debt of $500, 01, o0oiu equipping
and preparing armies, chiefly that of the Pc
tomac
In the months of inaction, too, with the vast
and constantly increasing army lying idle at
Washington. the Confederates had actually
blocked the Potomac by planting batteries on
the Virginia side of the Potomac some twenty
five miles below Washington. Press and people
were bowling for something to be done, and
President Lincoln was well nigh distracted.
Gen Mcclellan for some time refused even
to communicate his plan of campaign to Mr..
Lincoln. Once the anxious president called
| on the general, who sent back word That he
was ill and could not see him. But next day
Mcclellan was dressed and out riding To all
attempts to urge him forward he replied that
he was not ready.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-06-08
TO THE CHICkAHOMlNY.

After Williamsburg, McClellan's army fol
lowed on toward Richmond. There were
always delays, though, sometimes from one
cause, again from another. Part of the troops
were sent back to Yorktown, where they were
embarked on transports and seut up the York
to Eltbam's landing, above West Point
Franklins division, which had been on land
only one day since they left Washington, near
the middle of April, was the advance at
EIthams landing Frankliu's men had an
indecsiye little encounter with the retreating
Confederates.
1t took good two weeks for the Federal
army to move from Williamsburg to White
House, where the next headquarters were
The distance Travelled was forty miles, and a
part of the army was now within seven miles
of Richmond Certainly Gen. Mcclellan got
steadily nearer Richmond
The Federal forces were concentrated be
tween the Pamunkey AMI the Chickahominy
The Pamunkey was the south branch of the
York. The CiIickahominy lay between the
Federal army and Richmond, just as Gen.
Johnston meant il should In war map of
the situation before Richmond, published at
that time day after day in one of the leading
newspapers of the United States, the Chicka-
hominy river does not appear at all The
newspaper correspondents with McCiellan's
army evidently did not know there was such
stream. They found it out before the sum.
mer was over.
After Williamsburg Mcclellan reported
that he had only $1,000 men. In response to
his urgent demand for more troops, Nc
Dowellls corps of Al 900 men was ordered to
go to him by way of Fredericksburg By
following these points constantly on the map
the reader will get q distinct idea OF the
Peninsula campaign. Mcdowell was not
| under MeClellan's command. but led an ''in'
dependent cooperating army" Gen, Shields
division zes drs;wn from Banks force In The